Producing mobility: visual narratives of the rural migrant worker in Chinese television

Yu Shi and Francis L. Collins

Mobilities, 2018, vol. 13, issue 1, 126-141

Abstract: This paper employs literatures of mobility to explore the ways which rural migrant workers in China are represented publicly via television drama. Through an analysis of the popular serial Mingong, the paper examines the underlying politics of contemporary migration in China through three themes: the territorialisation of rural and urban spaces; the embodiment of boundaries via corporeal practices and subjectivities; and the politicisation of rural migrant desires. This analysis demonstrates the significance of television in crafting discursive understandings of mobility and migrants that are suffused with contemporary governmentalities of generating but also managing and excluding migration.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1320133

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